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Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis said he wants to see a stable Stormont emerge in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\nNorthern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis said he wants to see a stable Stormont emerge in the weeks ahead.<\/p>\n
Mr Lewis also said he wants to see the political parties in the North deliver on commitments made in the January 2020 New Decade, New Approach deal.<\/p>\n
Mr Lewis made the comments as DUP leader Edwin Poots met the party\u2019s Assembly members.<\/p>\n
Mr Poots is expected to announce changes to the party\u2019s ministerial team this week.<\/p>\n
Former leader Arlene Foster said she will step down as the North’s First Minister if Mr Poots makes any changes to her ministerial team.<\/p>\n
Speaking in Hillsborough, Co Down, on Tuesday, Mr Lewis said the region\u2019s political leaders want to see a stable Assembly and Executive.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is how we deliver for the people of Northern Ireland,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe things I have been hugely impressed with over the last year or so is the way that, despite coming back into office and the Executive just weeks before Covid came upon us, the Executive has worked together through that period to focus on the people of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople across the community want to see the Executive working together, delivering on the New Decade, New Approach commitments that everybody made and delivering for the people of Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would be very keen for all party leaders to want to see that going forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am very hopeful we will see that in the weeks ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Lewis added: \u201cI think it is the reality that people across Northern Ireland, they had three long years without any government locally.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving Stormont come back based on the New Decade, New Approach deal, that\u2019s what people want to see that delivered on and Stormont being stable, focused on the issues that matter to people in everyday lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think all the party leaders are acutely aware of that and I think they do want to work towards having a good stable Executive, and I will certainly be doing all I can to work with them and talk to them as I have done over the last few days.\u201d<\/p>\n